Divān

Hafez

Perseus:bib:oclc, 559481156. The Dīvān .Translated for the first time out of the Persian into English prose, with critical and explanatory remarks, with an introductory preface, with a note on Ṣūfīism, and with a life of the author, by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.

  1. (O bird of my soul !) thy pinion, spread ; and, from the (lofty) Tuba tree, the shout (of praise in recollection of Thy Creator) raise : ### Woe is it that a (glorious) bird like thee captive of the cage (of worldly delights that befit thee not) thou art ! ***